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How sweet it is.

The 1% and the few tiers under it have been ensnared in a massive scandal.

Essentially, it's about exotic forms of cheating to have someone admitted to an elite institution of higher education.

Here is a copy of the indictment.

Here is the media coverage.

The alleged scam could go by the name "AdmissionsGate" or "AthleteGate."

The latter refers to the allegation that former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith "billed" at about $400k an assignment creating faux credentials for non-athlete applicants to be admitted as athletes. 

Among those accused has been co-chair of law firm Willkie Farr - Gordon Caplan. Allegedly he ponied up $75k to have a professional test-taker sit in for his daughter. Here are more details from Kathryn Rubino at Abovethelaw.com.

About 40 have been swept up into this mess - directly. More will be - indirectly. Likely presidents and deans will have to resign for not ensuring adequate checks and balances in the admissions process.

But, hell, this particular high-end scam is just the tip of the iceberg in college admissions as well as then navigating toward being awarded a degree.

There is a growing global industry which owns the personal essay niche. That statement by an applicant is an important part of the package presented.

Here is the article I published with tips on how applicants can approach this writing task. The article assumes the applicants will accept the ethical responsibility to put together the personal statement themselves.

Across the world, fewer are doing that. Clever firms and individuals in this niche position and package their services as coaching and editing. They mandate the customer put something down on paper. Then they overhaul it way beyond the original content. That's what submitted to the admissions committee.

The less clever simply advertise the service as a form of ghostwriting. They place help-wanted on all sections of the international help-wanted site Craigslist for ghostwriters. Sometimes the ghostwriters, as is traditional in executive communications, will interview the applicant by Skype or in-person. Other times they will work from a data sheet. 

The industry can be lucrative. For those businesses and individuals with a track record for producing the essays which catapult applicants into what are considered the Ivies around the world there's big money. For small fry, the ghostwriting can be billed at about $25 an hour. An outfit in Boston - a city whose major industry is higher education - pays ghostwriters 80 bucks an essay. Peanuts. The trick is to grab assignments for elite school admissions.

Of course. once admitted the cheating can extend as far as the student's budget will go. A growing number of global services and solos will research and ghostwrite term papers. That includes the footnotes. Others will tune in to an online course and fulfill all the requirements. There are also note-takers who attend large lecture classes. 

The noble concept of higher education has become as corrupt as any banana republic.

That wasn't always the situation, of course.

When I was an adjunct professor I detected only one case of cheating. It was plain-vanilla plagiarism. No exotic ghostwriter seemed to be the middleman. Back then, there wasn't the large amount of student loan money floating around. Most of those in college couldn't afford to hire ghostwriters, note-takers, and test-takers. 

Unfortunately, with so many white-collar positions vanishing, there's no shortage of talent willing to get into this line of work.

Recently, a displaced journalist felt "forced" to cross the line. He had read my essay on how to approach the college admission personal statement. He came to me to sort of "apologize" for abandoning his ethics code. I informed him of legit work in researching and creating content for businesses in the career niche. There's plenty of it and there will be plenty more if the recession is severe.

Proposal: Appoint a Sheriff of Academia to set up stings to apprehend both those who are willing to pay for cheaters and those who implement the cheating. Make the sentence mandatory prison for five years. 

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What Would You Do with $500 Monthly String-Free Funding?

Stockton, California has seen hard financial times. That included double-digit unemployment and a high foreclosure rate. Those times aren't over: one in four continues to live in poverty.

The question is if "free money" - that is Universal Basic Income (UBI) - can catapult residents of that community onto an upward financial trajectory? And, simultaneously, can it soften capitalism. For example, will the funding increase formal voluntarism and motivate random acts of kindness?

As the Sacramento Bee reports, as part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), 130 residents will receive $500 a month for 18 months. That is strings-free. They can spend the money how they want, save it, or invest it.

The struggle to make ends meet in this era of low wage growth may have hardened many of us. And "the system" seems rigged against those not in the 1%. Can there be a return to Norman Rockwell good-hearted community values if there were financial wiggle room?

That SEED experiment could provide insight. At the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, there was a peek under the hood of current capitalism. That motor, many agreed, was not working well. Reform was needed.

However, there had been a shortage of ideas and concrete plans how to reset the operation of how the "Invisible Hand" operated. Father of capitalism - Adam Smith - invented that concept and term. Its fundamental belief is that total trust should be in the dynamics of the marketplace. 

Increasingly, though, it's not enough to simply be "smart" about earning, spending, saving, and investing money. For instance, many experts advise against owning a house, especially as one heads into retirement or semi-retirement. But that trend has turned America into LandLord Nation. Rent is high and getting higher just about everywhere. Members of all generations are becoming homeless. 

Can $500 a month give human beings adequate financial wiggle room to free them up to look beyond their own economic survival and reach out and help their fellow man? 

Time will tell. Meanwhile, the next location where this experiment can be tried out is Lordstown, Ohio. Soon the GM plant producing the slow-selling Cruze will idle, likely permanently. What will happen to the community with 1,600 who lose jobs which paid relatively well? Can UBI make this kind of economic shift more humane?

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Power - Remembering When It First Came Out of the Closet

The next target of the #MeToo Movement could be all industries in which the power remains in the hands of males.

At the top of the list could be how the business of practicing law is conducted in the law firm.

CBS MoneyWatch reports the results of a survey by ZipRecruiter. Of the females interviewed in law, 59% indicated they experienced sexual harassment.

They refrained from reporting it because of fear of retaliation as well as the assumption that nothing would be done about that. 

It seems odd that those in law firms would allegedly engage in sexual misconduct. After all, they are lawyers. They understand the possible legal consequences.

However, the reality is that power often makes the miscreants (and sometimes they are female) assume they:

• Have a right to forbidden fruit
• Will get away with it.

There is not enough research on power as a source of delusion in the workplace. That is despite the proliferation of social media and anonymous employee sites such as Glassdoor. 

This problem extends way beyond sexual misconduct.

It could be the platform for allegedly inflicting all kinds of mind games on employees, interns, and consultants.

That allegedly took place, Glassdoor presents, at the high-profile public affairs firm The Dilenschneider Group.

Here are the employee reviews on Glassdoor of The Dilenschneider Group. All give the firm a rating of "1" out of a possible "5." That means the overall rating is "1."

In contrast, public affairs firm kglobal has an overall rating of "4/3" out of "5" on Glassdoor. Here are the Glassdoor reviews.

The irony - or maybe it isn't ironic - is that the founder of The Dilenschneider Group - Bob Dilenschneider - had been an early adopter of tutoring executives about power. His book, published way back in 1990 - was "Power and Influence."

In a sense, Dilenschneider brought power out of the closet. Before that, we in executive communications focused our ghostwriting and scripting on the subject of "leadership" - effective and ineffective. The term "power" had been taboo.

No longer. Once the door was opened on discussing power, books on its how became best-sellers.

On the dark side had been Gabriel Sherman's biography of Roger Ailes - "The Loudest Voice in the Room." In the realm of "educational" has been Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs."

Now, thanks to #MeToo and niche law specialties such as Sanford's employment-law practices, we could be entering a new era on looking at power. Those who abuse it in any way could be positioned and packaged as entities to be purged from organizations. That would be no matter their talent or the results generated.

Takeaway: Males and females who play fast and loose with power should get it that their behavior will be observed, assessed, and, if proved to be even inappropriate, will be punished. What is treated as "inappropriate" could include the alleged yelling by partners at law firms. 

Just as there had been Nader Raiders for consumer fraud, there could be Power Outers for zeroing in on possible abuse.

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When That Advanced Degree Is No Longer Marketable ...

The peril of age in a hunt for work is well-known. 

Less well-known is how "dangerous" being what's called "overeducated" can be.

By "overeducated" is meant that your academic degree isn't marketable - at least to that particular employer or temporary agency.  The degree may be a Ph.D. in psychology or JD.

Because those searching for work are not fully aware how that degree could be holding them back, they leave it on their resume. That's even though a few employers might have told them explicitly that they are overeducated.

Tonight, again I encountered that reality.

From my communications business I developed a career coaching niche. A Ph.D. in American Literature had been referred to me. She no longer wanted to hop around being an adjunct professor. For the past six months she had been turned down for a number of non-academic jobs. In two situations she had been told she was, you got it, overeducated.

Bluntly, I asked her: Do you want to work?

Her answer: Yes.

Then I went right to it: Have you considered dropping all the degrees beyond the BA?

She was silent. 

Obviously, she didn't want to cave to disowning what she had achieved and was proud of.

But disown she may have to. I explained that in many job slots and gig assignments a lot of education scares employers.

They might assume you will be analyzing what's going on in the workplace and wind up reporting whatevers to regulatory agencies or even filing a lawsuit. 

Another negative is that they fear you will fly the coop when something better comes along. After all, with all that education ...

Of course, there are those who declare that it would be unethical to leave off the academic degrees.

I reframe their objection in this way: It's also unethical to put your life at risk (yes, possibility of suicide) because you can't get work.

Here's a classic example of that. A JD lost her job practicing law in 2009. 

No surprise, she had a mental breakdown. No one was hiring laid-off lawyers back then. They were perceived as damaged goods.

The odds were that she would never get another similar job.

Her therapist told her to get a job, any job. It was the first step to becoming employable in something, anything. And saving her life.

Her therapist also told her to not put the JD on the resume. Otherwise no one would hire her for a survival job. At the time, that was the only kind of task she could handle.

It took two years but eventually she was hired for a middle management job. Yes, she applied for it with the JD on the resume. It was not directly related to law but in that context the law degree was assessed as a plus.

Along her journey to regroup after losing her law job, did she worry about ethics? No.

Did she worry about misrepresenting herself? No.

In therapy, she recognized her life was on the line. To save it, she violated her usual norms.

When the market for doctoral degrees in the humanities crashed for college teaching in the early 1970s, I wasn't worldly enough to scale back my credentials to the BA.

Consequently, it took about five years - way too long - to land a nonacademic job which paid well. And that only happened because, at the time, the oil industry was on the defensive in public affairs. It recruited the highly educated like myself to draft articles and speeches for the executives. 

Takeaway: In the current fast-changing world economy many academic degrees will wind up not being marketable. That's just the way it is.

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You Remember Ernestine, Of Course

AT&T is no longer a monopoly. 

Yet, within less than a month I have had not one but TWO Ernestine moments.

Those experiences were frequent back then when AT&T was the only telecommunications game in town.

The seeming indifference at that time was symbolized by Lily Tomlin's character Ernestine.

The first Ernestine moment happened on November 29th, both in AT&T retail (6000 Mahoning Avenue, Austintown, Ohio) and its support line (800-331-0500). Here are the soul-wrenching details.

In response, the power that be who oversees OH - Shaun Nork - contacted me. He listened. At the time, just having AT&T listen satisfied me. Emotionally, I filed away the ordeal as over. 

Shame on me. Ernestine returned yesterday. Through email I received this receipt from AT&T for payment of a bill for an account I assumed had been closed on November 29th. Here it is Download Attpaymentreceipt. 

My concerns were:

• The account wasn't closed
• This was a charge I should not have to pay
• The charge will continue to recur and be deducted from my bank checking account via direct deposit
• The billing on the new account (a downsized smart phone replacing the iPhone) would not proceed 
• The new account, because of an unpaid bill, would be shut down.

I called the AT&T help line listed on the old account - 800-331-0500.

Two account representatives later over a time frame of two hours, the problem wasn't resolved. I was in terror that mismanagement would result in shutting off my new account and I would be left without a phone which I needed for my business.

Yet, obviously, this wasn't a complex issue that would have to be handled by the transactional lawyers at Cravath Law Firm. 

Totally unhinged, I called Nork. Then and since then no return call. I left the voice mail that this had turned into a regulatory matter.

Yes, I was having chest pains. And, yes, my age puts me in a protected category.

A recovered alcoholic who hasn't had a drink in decades felt powerless against having that first drink, again.

Sweet jesus, I thought to myself, help me.

Next, I further disrupted my work day by driving to the AT&T retail in Austintown.

There, the manager and a salesperson explained what should have been on the receipt or told to me by the account representatives I had reached at 800-331-0500.

• The account was closed in the midst of the normal billing cycle.
• Therefore, a bill was issued.
• The full amount for a total cycle was charged.
• I would received a return of the over-billing by check, within about four weeks.

So, after almost three hours (including drive time), the problem was addressed. 

Or, so I hope.

I don't know.

Regulators in telecommunications should assign mystery shoppers to both AT&T retail and its phone help lines.

When it comes to negligence in the food industry, criminal charges are made and executives go to prison.

Why not apply that same model to telecommunications. Wireless service is as much a necessity of life in the 21st century as food. My hunch is if some AT&T members of the C-Suite go to prison sales and customer service would improve - significantly.  

The chest pains let up about 90 minutes after I left AT&T retail.

I didn't have a drink of alcohol.

At 7:00 P.M. I attended a 12-step meeting I hadn't planned on going to. After all, I have assignments to complete before the long Christmas holiday.

The dog jumped up on my lap when I cried. 

Reflection: Personal injury lawyers might find they can file class action litigation based on the alleged harm done by the current seeming Ernestine ethos. Judges who have experienced that kind of trauma are likely to certify the class. 

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Remembering When We Felt We Had Power

It's a very dark day for Sherwin-Williams.

And its stock price reflects that. The shorts could move in.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Sherwin-Williams' conviction in the Santa Clara, California public nuisance class action lead paint trial.

That leaves the conviction intact. And that means that the paint company which once manufactured and marketed lead paint is wide open territory for copycat lawsuits - both throughout CA and the rest of the nation.

Those lead paint lawsuits, at the state level, could be, if won, a windfall for government. Both the plaintiff bar and defense lawyers could enjoy a rush of new business. Plaintiff law firms such as Motley Rice can be hired by the prosecution on contingency to assist with the litigation against those sophisticated lawyers from white shoe large law firms such as Jones Day. 

In Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports:

"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Sherwin-Williams [Sherwin-Williams v. California)  and Conagra Brands Inc., leaving intact a ruling that requires them to pay more than $400 million for lead-paint remediation in California."

The carnage extends beyond lead paint. Now so many other industries could be perceived as sitting ducks for public nuisance lawsuits. They include BigPharma for how it marketed opioids. A grim book about that is "Dopesick" by Beth Macy. It is 1,311 on Amazon. Here it can be ordered.

In Ohio, where the opioid epidemic can't be contained, the attorney general had already filed a public nuisance lawsuit about pharmaceutical companies. It's being settled. More states may also take that legal step.

Other industries targeted for public nuisance litigation range from energy (blamed for climate change) to firearms (the theory that guns are primary cause of violence). 

It's interesting to note that business trade associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had been busy bees in composing and submitting amicus briefs. They huffed and they puffed and they couldn't blow public nuisance away.

That says a lot about the power of public nuisance. Even the top court of the land rules not to intervene in a conviction against two major corporations. In addition, it bears witness to the reality that they have to change how they lobby. 

Earlier, the CA appeals court upheld the conviction. And the CA Supreme Court refused to even review it. 

America, despite the intense conservative movement, could be returning to the era of consumer and worker protection. That was when litigation against tobacco and asbestos thrived. At the level of the individual, Ralph Nader mobilized not only the courts but the grassroots through his Nader Raiders. New versions of Naderism can sweep the land, mobilizing Everyman and Everywoman. 

To resurrect the counterculture meme: Power to the People. 

Full Disclosure: I had blogged the Rhode Island lead paint public nuisance class action litigation (2005-2006). Then and now I question the effectiveness of the public relations agencies officially in the loop. Are they operating in the 20th century?

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The Good Life Isn't Costing $5 Million

Opioids, energy production, lead paint, and the two barking dogs next dog. All have been alleged to or actually been convicted of creating a public nuisance.

To those categories of products, services, and creatures might be added financial services firms.

Increasingly, they are developing extreme anxiety in all generations, ranging from iGen to Silent.

They are doing that by hammering the message that all of those human beings could run out of money before they run out of years. Here is the typical scare-tactic article published in MarketWatch. 

The reality is this: No one knows the future - not on the macro level and not on the level of the finances of each human being.

Yet, usually with great authority the financial services firms predict millions of dollars will be needed for retirement or semi-retirement. And, even with that kind of nest eggs, the aging could wind up homeless.

Meanwhile, here is life as it is being lived and probably will continued to be lived: Many of those who did not pay much attention to building a nest egg or lost much of it in the two economic downturns in the 21st century essentially are managing to do just fine. There are exceptions of course. But usually their dire poverty or homelessness results from factors other than aging and not having a portfolio of five million dollars.

For 27 months I lived among those who were essentially dependent on Social Security. The setting was southwestern Arizona. 

They had had the financial common sense to relocate from more expensive areas of the U.S.

When they arrived they hunkered down in studio apartments and often got on waiting lists for government subsidized housing for the aging. In the common rooms of those residential complexes were items they didn't need, which they left for others who would find them useful. That sharing reminded me of my counterculture youth. 

I didn't hear a peep of envy from my neighbors about the other half who had paid attention to the nest egg and lived in posh retirement communities in Oro Valley, AZ.

The ethos was being grateful to have enough. That might be called The New Minimalism. There was no hunger for more.

The pilgrims mastered the wonderful bus system in metro regions such as Tucson, Arizona. Cars weren't necessary.

Because age bias is less in areas such as Tucson and Phoenix, they were able to land part-time employment at the local Fry's Supermarket and Home Depot. When I was consulting at the latter, the staff was celebrating a clerk's 80th birthday. 

No one, including myself, has their undies in a bunch that Social Security monthly payment might get cut by about 23% by 2034. The MarketWatch article sternly warns readers that will happen sooner than they think. But, what about not thinking about it, at least not as a form of daily angst ritual!

Yes, the lifestyle in southwestern AZ has become more expensive, very recently. That's because of the influx of those from California who are fleeing that state's high cost of living.

But, those I had spoken with held out the option, if AZ got too pricey, to relocate to Mexico, Ecuador, or Belize. In parts of those nations, it is possible to get by on $700 a month. That's about half the average Social Security monthly payment. 

The above is what I know. I lived it. 

So, if the financial services industry doesn't back off with the statistical theatrics then some of us should find a clever plaintiff law firm. We should play around with the idea of filing a class action lawsuit. In it we would contend that the promotional tactics constitute a public nuisance.

We request two things.

One is injunctive relief: Totally halt the scare tactics.

The other is damages for harm done.

The harm done to us and those who love us has been significant.

Before I realized I was doing jolly fine, I had lost many a night's sleep, gained 50 pounds from antidepressant medications, and, get this, had moved all the way to AZ from Connecticut.

I moved back east, as least as far east as I could afford, when I recovered from the panic triggered by all that marketing material distributed by financial services firms.

Of course, I could run low on money. Any one could. If so, there are myriad expat living options. 

Until we decide whether to sue, let's get the message out that the financial services industry can huff and puff.

But it won't blow away our trust in our ability to financially cope with whatever. 

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Collective Action for Contract Workers - UK Model

In the UK, IWGB represents Uber drivers.

That union - Independent Workers Union of Great Britain- is the advocate of gig workers. And, in its recent activities on behalf of Uber drivers, it is pushing to have them reclassified as legal entities closer to employees or even employees. 

Tomorrow, the IWGB, reports TechCrunch, has authorized a strike by Uber drivers. It will last for about a day. That's plenty of time to disrupt the lives of those who have become dependent on ride-hailing services.

What IWGB wants for those Uber drivers includes:

• The end to unfair terminations 
• Increase in fares
• Reduction of the commission paid to Uber
• Better overall working conditions.

This protection from unionization is a development gig workers around the world should research. Among full-time employees the power of unions may be declining. However, unions could begin to scale again in the gig economy. Organizers should take a look at that opportunity.

There is power in the gig economy to shut down an entire nation. The missing piece in collective action is not being organized. 

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"Animal House" Was Tame, Compared to This Allegation by Julie Swetnick

The day before the career-make-it-or-break-it Senate hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, there is the biggest disclosure bombshell of all.

It comes from Julie Swetnick. She knew Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge from high school days (1981-82).

As Ruth Brown reports in the New York Post:

" … [Swetnick] alleges she saw them [Kavanaugh, Judge] and their pals spike punch at house parties so that girls who drank it could be 'gang raped' by a "train' of boys." 

Swetnick states that she had been among the victims.

In addition, she notes that when intoxicated, allegedly Kavanaugh did unwanted touching of females. Than allegedly including "grinding."

Timing, as the old saying goes, is everything.

Give the high-profile of the Kavanaugh chaos, this series of allegations will be on the minds of everyone, including those directly in the loop, during the hearing tomorrow. That is, if Kavanaugh doesn't step down from the nomination before.

We can anticipate skits on late night shows this evening.

There will be someone simulated to look like the high school version of Kavanaugh adding substances to the punch bowl. Then he will stumble, drunk, to the balcony and throw up over the railing. A good time will be had by all who stay up late tonight.

Tomorrow is another situation.

If any of the allegations by the three women who have stepped forward are perceived or proved to be true, then supporters of Kavanaugh should be furious. With that kind of baggage, he should not have accepted the nomination. Even a history of out of hand drinking in his youth should have convinced him to stay out of the limelight and not go for the nomination.

And, of course, the question on everyone's minds is: Why is the vetting process for high-level appointments seemingly so flawed?

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Appeals Court Looking at Alleged Age Discrimination in Hiring - Meanwhile, How to Bypass Experience Caps

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit … is weighing the scope of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act … Common employment practices such as campus recruiting and experience caps would be exposed to extensive litigation if job applicants are allowed to hold employers liable for age discrimination, a management-side lawyer argued." Erin Mulvaney, National Law Journal, September 6, 2018. Here is the article.

Traditionally, the legal mindset about ageism in the workplace has been focused on all the versions of termination.

A recent interesting lawsuit has been "Mullaugh v. JPMorgan." The estate of broker Michael A. Lorig contends forced retirement caused him to commit suicide. JPMorgan is accused of wrongful death.  Here is Bloomberg's coverage.

Now, the shift is to alleged discrimination in recruitment.

The legal spotlight has been cast on the issue by the litigation filed by Dale Kleber. Represented by AARP Foundation lawyer Dara Smith, Kleber contends he was denied an in-house lawyer position at CareFusion, at age 58, because of an experience cap.

That was seven years. Kleber has more than that. 

It is important to note that the plaintiff Kleber seems to be attempting to keep this review by the Seventh Circuit limited. Another issue has been campus recruiting, as presented in a class action lawsuit against PwC . Here Bloomberg covers "Rabin v. PwC." The defendant got the class action status shot down but that lawsuit isn't dead yet. Likely, more will sprout up.

Kleber's attorney Smith noted that campus recruiting would not be outlawed. In the PwC lawsuit, the plaintiff class claimed that the large accounting firm primarily recruited through interviewing on college campuses. That tended to prevent those over-40 from entering the formal recruitment process. 

However, the experience cap is, in itself, a major issue. In fact, I perceive it as bigger than campus recruiting.

In my coaching those over-50, most of those "between jobs" already understand that they have to downsize their experience.

Lots of experience can not only make them come across in the resume as "old."

It can render them unmarketable. For any number of reasons myriad employers back away from applicants with more than several years experience. Those reasons range from assuming the compensation will have to be high to fear they will bolt when more suitable work becomes available. Also, let's face it, America is tilted toward youth-everything. 

That downsizing can be done in a number of legal and ethical ways.

For example, the resume can be restricted to full-time employment, gig contracting, and self-employment in the last seven years.

Also, the nature of the experience can be reconfigured. What had been known as "ghostwriting" can now be identified as "social media content-provider." The applicant had only been focused on the latter for three years. 

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